The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-16
TWO QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

L. Thcn viii THE AfPEAL account for tho fact
that undor revenue tariff We never. for fifteen
yoars, exported yard Of cottons TO England.
whereas undor protection we have, In that number
OF years, sold millions OF dollan in cotton special
ties 10 England
? VIII 1nr ArrEAL tell ~ why. under free trade,
we bought the bulk Of our best talcocs, ginghams,
chccss etc, OF England aad paid - ~ 60 per cent
motc than under projection We pay our own mills
Tot bcttor goods'--7hs Chattanooga Times.
|. In answer 10 tho iirst Of these para.
graphs, TItH ArPEAL has 10 say that the
demands Of growing population, in the
t'mo referred to, woro such as TO easily
take NJ MI the goods that our manufact-
urcrs could oiIir for sale In those years
they were in the iniantile condition Of
which the protectionis,s tell us 80 much.
That they have been able since that time,
and while in receipt Of bonus from the
public treasury, wrung from the hard
earnings Of tho poor, struggling work-a-day
people that they have been able success
fully 10 compete with the manufacturers Of
free trade England plain proof that
they arc not now in tho shaky in
iantilc condition, but have reached the
yirilc condition when existence is no
longer n problem and arc able to contend,
and successfully, too, with the hoary-
headed and experienced manufacturers OF
England and, therefore. do not any longer
mood protection.
.. Every year almost from 1850 10
1880 has witnessed some improvements in
machinery for the cleaning Of cotton,
spinning Of thread, weaving Of cloth and
printing Of Il in faster colors. This las
enabled tho spinncrs in this country, rs
well Rs in England, to spin cheaper, the
woavcrs to make cloth cheaper, and the
calico printers 10 satisfy tho demands OF
the public, and oil at cheaper rates, almost
year by year, until now the wonder Is how
raw cotton, grown in this vicinity, after NIL
the handling, rchandling and rcshipping,
insurance. storage and sampling that il
undcrgocs before II reaches the wcayers'
hands can be returned TO Memphis, with
additional and accumulated costs and
chRfgtS, in the manufactured condivo
and sold M chcaply ~ Il Is. II "a as Tn
lsmcnicd Dundrary used 10 say. "some
thing that no fcllah can ind out" But III,
questions thus presented by The Chaifa
noo1o 7ino, and thus answered by TIL
ArirAL, arc mn evasion and avoidance o
the main question at issue between the PRO
neutrality-suspicious. and the Tariff Reform
Democrats which Is: "why. under FREE
Constitution, should one free man be take,
in what he cats, wears, sleeps upon and u
buried In, 10 support another frce mar
who enjoys with him free chance In In,
race Of lie To make living, m lac does
without State aid In tho form Of Protect
i've tariff" Answer that, Mt. Times.
YOU please. And answer this, too: "wh,
should nearly fifteen millions Of working
people 10 called upon 10 support COCOON
others who ara neither crippled Ia mind
body or estate, and arc IN able to make
living without help ~ they arc7" Tn
Constitution, which Is the Common Com
pact Of u,c people, puts no such weight q
obligation upon any Of them n this.
tariff Tor protection must, therefore, b
wrong, uniuS, and Illegal. And IL Is.